About Ossos (Bones)
- Year Released:
- 1997
- Format:
- 35mm
- Genres:
- Drama
- Metadata:
- Directed by Pedro Costa
After a suicidal teenage girl gives birth, she misguidedly entrusts her baby’s safety to the troubled, deadbeat father. The first film in Pedro Costa’s transformative trilogy about Fontainhas, an impoverished quarter of Lisbon, Ossos is a tale of young lives torn apart by desperation. Portuguese language with English subtitles.
To read an article on Pedro Costa from Bloomington residents Jeanette Samyn and Jonathan Kyle Sturgeon from n+1 (2010), click here.